Macrowikinomics Murmuration is a beautiful and fascinating video. Many of the connections made by the commentator are thought-provoking. However, I suggest it may be not quite correct to say both (a) that individual birds are not intelligent and (…
The Citizen Initiative Review is a major development on the road to sustainability. It should be supported and promoted by everyone involved with environmental, ecological, and sustainability issues. Let me explain.1. INTELLIGENCEThink about what …
I believe that any person or group wishing to catalyze the emergence of a sustainable civilization must take strategic action to enhance the collective intelligence of entire societies. (NOTE: The term “whole society” or “entire society” does not …
A sociology student in France wrote to me, saying I’m interested in the concept of “collective intelligence”. When I referred to Wikipedia, it was explained like this: “the anti-globalization movement relies heavily on e-mail, cell phones, pagers,…
A very knowlegeable colleague wrote me “As a believer in the principle of collective intelligence since the 1960s, I do however remain very cautious about how I would sense its manifestation in the [community dialogue] events that you describe. My…
In “Open Innovation: The Crowd Is Wise (When It’s Focused)” in the July 19, 2009 New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/technology/internet/19unboxed.html, Steve Lohr notes that the winning entities in an open-to-the-public Netflix innov…